Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started
by xorcist on Monday July 08, 2019 @05:08AM
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It's important to know that there were once many implementations of X11. Xorg is the only one that hasn't failed. Everything else is unmaintained now.
This may be a matter of different perspective, but from my point of view the Xorg maintainers did a monumental work modularizing and cleaning up the codebase. They kept integrating modern extensions and have kept X11 relevant all this time. Try something pre-Xorg to compare.
Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started
by danShumway on Sunday July 07, 2019 @09:33PM
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> To run a project into the ground and wash one's hands of it... is not worthy of endorsement.
But to run a project into the ground and not wash one's hands of it is an even worse endorsement.
You might not trust the Xorg devs to develop you a new window system, but at least you'd trust them to know if their own, existing code has fundamental problems.
Amusingly, I often hear this argument from Wayland proponents. Do they realize, that those very same developers have failed at maintaining Xorg code base and fixing it's bugs in backward compatible way?
To run a project into the ground and wash one's hands of it... is not worthy of endorsement.